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by tboyd47 8y ago
Yes! There is a great way to do this called ACH (Analysis of Competing Hypothesis). It's a wonderful way to clarify your thoughts about a complex issue. It is used within the CIA. http://competinghypotheses.org/docs&#x2
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by tboyd47 8y ago
You need to make the back pain go away if you intend to continue your career in programming. The good news that it's entirely possible to fix. The bad news is that it takes time and money. I couldn't even type for more than 15 min
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Hey, I really like your essay, and especially how you just list out the facts without editorializing. I learned a lot reading it. It would make a really great book to read with some more details and some editing. If you want to start an org
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Bankers' attitudes about it make it even more infuriating. Whenever I'm at the bank I get asked, "Have you considered taking a credit card to start building your credit?" When I patiently explain why I can't do that
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by tboyd47 8y ago
It affects your life in a whole lot of other ways. Car rentals, apartment applications, etc.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Really? Where can one get these "interest free loans?"
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Thanks, I misspoke. IANAL but I still think Equifax itself is in the wrong. You can't expect businesses that deal in credit to skip due diligence on their customers. Equifax (and the other 2) get to define creditworthiness for all thes
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It's also blatantly unconstitutional because it discriminates against the sects of Islam that don't allow loans with interest (and that's the only way to build "credit").
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Yeah. I upvoted the story just because I thought the fact that it was such a spectacularly awful idea made it worthy of discussion. But when I saw the snarky comments all downvoted, I upvoted the snarky comments too. You can only come up wi
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by tboyd47 8y ago
> Developers spend over 17 hours every week dealing with maintenance issues like debugging and refactoring, and about a quarter of that time is spent fixing bad code. That’s nearly $300B in lost productivity every year. Wow, there's
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Ask HN: How open should I be about finding other clients?
1 points by tboyd47 8y ago|3 comments
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Longitudinal studies are typically observation only, so even the stronger ones won't establish causality. But that doesn't mean the conclusions aren't valuable. For example, if we know that DDT exposure in particular increase
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Securitization and Mass Detentions in Xinjiang(thecessblog.com)
3 points by tboyd47 8y ago|0 comments
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Interesting story, do you mind giving more detail?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I guess I meant more of a labor collective than what's normally considered a "union." I'm not interested in paying for pensions or protecting jobs of old farts who feel threatened by young people. But I am interested i
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by tboyd47 8y ago
You really don't need to bring in politics to justify a programmer's union, but if that's the trigger that causes workers to organize, so be it. Just off the top of my head, I can think of a number of entirely non-political w
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by tboyd47 8y ago
If I read it right, the point the author is making is that a language with syntax support for concurrency (such as Go) is a more cost-effective choice for a serverless architecture than a language that doesn't (such as JS) because you
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I say, go for it. Large companies are just large because they have more people on the payroll. If the job and team looks right to you, it doesn't matter how big the company is.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Different things stress different people out. My highest stress job was at the largest company. My startup job was medium stress (mind you, I don't live in SV). The sweet spot for me has usually been mid-size companies. What do you thi
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I started my career at a startup and worked there for 3 years. Since then I bounced around at various companies of all sizes. Smallest company was 5 people. Largest was over 70,000. A company is a miniature command economy that is insulated
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Just curious, which service are you moving to?
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I am doing it right now and it's going well. My steps are: 1) Sign up for free Protonmail (comes with free receive-only @pm.me address). 2) Forward all Gmail to @pm.me. 3) Use @pm.me address for all new accounts / signups online.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
I worked on a team that did both direct-sold and programmatic ads for a digital publisher and direct-sold was way more profitable. Less headache, too. I'm in the "long con" camp. It seems to me that programmatic ads are popul
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by tboyd47 8y ago
The article is good but it completely ignores the rise of Python, which is the main thing challenging Ruby in 2018. Elixir doesn't really compete with Ruby. It may be technically superior, but will never supplant Ruby because it's
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Ask again after the next major financial crisis.
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by tboyd47 8y ago
They can't fire you if you've already quit. The two week period is for your teammates' benefit. Not your company or the project. Any manager that knows they're losing someone is going to much rather spend money on hiring
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by tboyd47 8y ago
When you get let go, neither you nor the people who depend on you at work know that it's coming. When you quit, you know it's coming and they don't. The two week notice gives them time to get the info they need from you. It&#
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by tboyd47 8y ago
This matches a recent experience of mine working on a dev team at a large tech company. We joked about ADD or "Abuse-Driven Development," because we would always hear our bosses say, "X needs to be in tomorrow or I'm goi
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by tboyd47 8y ago
Oops, I didn't mean to put you personally on the defensive there, I was honestly asking your thoughts. By the way, I managed to find a really good piece on Bloomberg that lays out both sides in a pretty objective way: https:/&#x2
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It's really just one academic (William Lazonick) who seems to be really good at promoting his theory to the press. It seems like every time I see this topic on HN it's in connection with him. That said, I actually think his theory

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